Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-04-28
GRANTS BIRTHDAY.

Celebrations I'm various Cities.
| GOV. FoRAKERs WARN TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD GEN
ERAI-MaRk TWAIN ON GRANTS LITERARY STYLE
GEN. SHERMAN AND Mr. ooNKLINa AT NEW YORK
MEETING.
The Americas Club OF Philadelphia, gave a BAN
Quet in that city last evening in honor OF General
Grants birthday. Gov. Foraker responded TO the
toast general Grant" He briefly sketched the
great generals life and lauded his determination
in protecting the citizens at home and abroad, and
commended his determination In suppressing the
| intimidation OF voters by the ku-klux and rife
clubs OF South Carolina. The speaker said Gen.
eral Grant was a republican. He believed In the
Union and the constitution. He believed In the
United States OF America he believed In the peo-
pie OF this country. He believed in the dignity
and elevation OF labor. He believed this nation
ought to be Independent OF every other nation on
the face or the earth. He believed I'm a protective
tariff and was less concerned about revenue re-
form than he was to have enough protection TO
protect, but he believed first and above all In the
rights OF man. He believed In civil and political
equality, and he believed In free ballot and a
fair count and hated and despised as he ought to,
every man who apologized for or was indifferent
to the crime that would prevent that
The responses TO the other toaStS were as fol-
lows:
keystone state" Hon. C. W. stone; 'Republi-
can Party" Hon. John Dalzell, Pfttsburg; "Young
Men of the Party" ChaS s. warwick, esq.,, Phila-
delphia-
J. p. Foster, Of New York, spoke on Republican
Letters were read from Roscoe Conkling, Hon.
John s. Wise, Representative w. ID. Kelley, Hon.
Benz. Harrison, Indianapolis; Hon. VIM. NJ. Evarts,
VIM. 7. Sherman, New York; Hon. JOS r. Hawley,
Hartford Conn: Hon. John Cessna, Bedford, Pa !;
Hon. George w. Childs Philadelphia; Hon. Phile-
tus Sawyer, Oshkosh, Wis; Gov. Beaver, OF Penn
sylvania; Leland stanford, OF California, and
Others.
Among the distinguished guests present were
Foraker n rpd II ~
New, OF Indiana; Lieut.. Gov. Davis, secretary or
the commonwealth; c. w. stone ana j. p. Foster,
president OF the New York Republican Club.
MARK TWAIN DEFENDS GRANTS GRAMMAR.
The Army and Navy Club, OF Connecticut, cele-
brated Gen. Grants birthday. The principal adj
dress was by s. L. Clements Mark Twain), who
said: will detain you with only just a few words
Just few thousand words-and then give place TO
a better man, IL he has been created. Lately, a
great and honored author, Matthew Arnold has
been finding fault with Gen. Grants English. That
would be fair enough, may be. If the examples OF
imperfect English averaged more instances TO the
| page in Gen. Grants book than they do in Mr.
ArnOld'S criticism upon the bOok-but they don't.
daughter and appauSe.l IL would be fair enough,
Grants book than they are in the works OF the
| average standard author-but they are not, In
truth.
| In Mr.. Arnolds paper on Gen. Grants book we
| find couple OF grammatical crimes and more
t Hns seer o, sefs sr9Ge ana s1oyeny
| that he might wish to have Immediately under
| him Sherman, who had been serving with Grant
| in the West. He begged him not to hesitate IL he
| thought it for the good OF the service Grant as
Sured him that he had no thought OF moving him,
and In his memoirs after relating what had passed,
he adds" &c. To read that passage couple OF
| times would make a man dizzy; TO read IL -four
times would make MIN drunk. [Great laughter
don't think MT Arnold was quite wise, for he
| never yet born who could safely assault another
mans English; he knew, as well as he knows any.
thing, that the man never lived whose English was
| 1awless.
People may hunt out what microscopic NOTES
they please, but AFTER ALL the fact remains and can
not be diSlOdged that Gen. Grants book is great
| tand in its peculiar department unique1 and un-
| approachable literary masterpiece. In their line
simple memoirs" Their style is at least fiaWiess
| and no man can improve upon it. What do We
care for grammar when we think or the man tina,
tionai and immedlsts surrepder And aaos.
others: 81 propose to move immediately upor
your works" Il propose to fight 1t out on thi.
line II it takes all summer" (ApplauSe.l Mr..
Arnold would doubtless claim that that last sen
tence is not strictly grammatical, and yet never
hundred million tons OF 1, fOurth-proof
hard boiled, hide-bound grammar from another
| mouth couldn't have done. And finally we have
that gentler phrase, that one which shows you
| another true side OF the man-shOws that In his
| soldier heart there was room for other than CORY
war notices, and in bus tongue the gift TO htly
| phrase them: LET US have peace" prolonged
applause and cheerS.1
| ORGANIZING A GRANT ASSOCIATION IN NEW YORK
A number Of prominent men organized an asso-
| citation In New York last evening for the purpose
| OF annually celebrating Gen. Grants birthday
There were present Gen. w. T. sherman. ex-Sena-
| tor Roscoe Conkling, ex-senator Alex. Macdonald.
| Gen. Sherman, the chairman, said that although
| his heart was with them, they all knew, he
| thought the older men should be excused from the
laborS which the organization necessarily involved
| and that the work should be done by the younger
men. He was personal friend OF Gen. Grants
| for more than forty years, and loved him as a
brother. Letters OF regret were read from Hamil.
ton Fish, Roger A. Pryor, z. p. Alexander, OF Gen.
Lees staff; Levi p Morton, Rev. DIR. K s. Storrs
Jos. w. Drexel Gen. Hedges, commanding the de
partment OF New YORK in the Grand Army; Adam
Badeau, and telegram dated Philadelphia from
| Gen. Horace Porter, ex-CongreSSman o. Il. Potter,
&C. committee OF thirteen was appointed for
the purpose or arranging the details OF the organi
ZatiOn.